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Old 02-27-2006, 11:41 AM
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Though the Tao is without characteristics we all have (and can extend) an instinctive awareness of when things are in accordance. If any, what person or people, real or fictional, personify 'Taoist' for you most?
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Yoda.

Actually... I know very few people that personify Tao to me. I see it more in animals and nature. My taoist master Wan Chi Fu would have to come to mind. And of course, within the boundaries of your question... Lao Tzu.
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Obi Won Kenobi in the original Star Wars film for me. Gentle, calm, humble, benevolent, mindful and naturally fearless. That persona made a firm impression on my mind as a kid.

I know what you mean about nature and animals. Also young children and some elderly people seem to return me to sanity as well somehow.
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Because the tao is so vast and limitless, a person of the tao would not be much of a person.

They wouldn't be heroic or someone you would think worth remembering.

Looking at them would be like looking out into a large open plain - nothing but open space.

They would have nothing to say.

Existence itself would seem to speak for them.

They would never focus their eyes or look at anything, but they would see all.

They wouldn't react to any circumstance or stimuli.

Sounds and situations of crisis would seem to deaden about them.

In short, a person of the tao is oblivous to what we see as our reality.

They know it to not be real.

What we would see as cars, trees, people, feelings and ideals, they would only see a vast sea of emptiness.

A sea they are a part of.
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Because the tao is so vast and limitless, a person of the tao would not be much of a person....

...What we would see as cars, trees, people, feelings and ideals, they would only see a vast sea of emptiness.

A sea they are a part of.
It's like reading Liu I-Ming.
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Too true! The Zombies in Resident Evil!! definitely the Tao there

never met anyone who is the embodiment of Tao.
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Can't embody Tao but Taoist sure The Taoist immortals could hardly be called embodiments of Tao, that would be crazy. They do represent something though. er, hahahaha.
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they represent the way along the path?
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Kinda. Their legends are all so unique. I mean, you have a laughing fat man, a love-sick flute player, a great shaman who lost his body so possessed a dead beggar, a compassionate waif, a scholar/alchemist who kept screwing up (my avatar), a cross-dressing fortune teller and singer, a wise bat that decided to incarnate as a human and liked riding around on a cheeky donkey, and even a reformed criminal rich man!

All of them were flawed characters and there was a strong element of chance (or you could say natural humility) in their becoming immortal.
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